Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Urban farming Coho

[Sheilah Davidson (sdavidson]

 I suspect it's 2 acres period.  You can grow an awful lot of food on 2 
acres.  I know of a CSA up here that has over a hundred families and 
farms 3 acres.

On 9/5/2010 4:05 PM, Sharon Villines wrote:
> On 5 Sep 2010, at 12:16 PM,<kkudia [at] peoplepc.com>  <kkudia [at] 
> peoplepc.com>  wrote:
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> > Just a thought. Read last month that Orange Splott LLC is a Portland, Oregon
> > CoHo developer (Rick Spevak). They have or are going to propose the model:
> > "Farm within the City" model on less than 2 acres.
> I assume this is 2 acres per household?
>
> I'm curious, for the more gardening savvy than I, how this would affect city 
> water systems if many people did it? Is it legal to drill a well in a city and 
> bypass city water?
>
> Sharon
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